(Emile ZOLA, Novelist and occasional playwright, champion of the Naturalism movement, sits at his desk with a fountain pen and a roll of parchment, facing the audience. His face is candle-lit. Meanwhile, further upstage, SYLVIE, a waifish handmaiden in her early twenties carefully sews a fabric daisy onto a large, floppy hat, while ARNAUD,
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